| 单词 | accuse |
| 释义 | ac·cuse I. transitive verb 1. a. < the courtiers accused their queen > < the planes were accused of spreading cholera, typhus, and bubonic plague — Current History > b. c. < accused the brazen corruptions of the capital — Carl Van Doren > < accuses a system rather than any specific persons — Bruce Catton > 2. < sometimes, as she passed a high window, the accusing light fell for a moment on her oval face — Edith Sitwell > intransitive verb < he accused no more, but dumbly shrank before accusing throngs of thought — George Eliot > < where thought accuses and feeling mocks — W.H.Auden > < the “war party” fretted and accused — New Republic > Synonyms: < charging him with impiety — J.A.Froude > < suppose the petitioner falsely and unjustly charged the judge with having excluded him from knowledge of the facts — O.W.Holmes †1935 > accuse may suggest stronger personal feeling or interest < Louvet … took his station in the Tribune, saying, “I, Robespierre, accuse thee!” — William Wordsworth > indict indicates formal accusation in or as if in holding for trial < you are here indicted … Lord Dudley [and] Lady Jane Grey, of capital and high treason — Thomas Wyatt > impeach implies a charge, especially one involving corruptness, poor judgment, or malfeasance through duplicity, calling for a defense or answer < any intelligent and noble-minded American can with reason take that side … without having either his reason or his integrity impeached — Kenneth Roberts > < why should he be impeaching the Reverend George Barnard for exceptional futility? — Compton Mackenzie > arraign suggests formal presentation of charges with a demand for a plea, defense, or explanation < I was carried down to the sessions house, where I was arraigned — Daniel Defoe > < Davies's career … affords the perfect grounds for arraigning both capitalism and socialism — Osbert Sitwell > incriminate and criminate once commonly meant to charge with a crime; in today's use they are more likely to mean involving or inculpating in crime, laying open to charges < the answer need not reveal a crime in order to be incriminating. It is enough if it might furnish a clue … that leads to proof of an illegal act — New Republic > II. obsolete |
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